Cryo-EM✓ External Access

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Cryo-Electron Microscopy

University of Washington

📍 Seattle, WA · Website ↗

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Cryo-Electron Microscopy in the UW Department of Biochemistry is co-directed by Justin Kollman and David Veesler. It operates a 300 kV Titan Krios G3 with a Gatan BioQuantum energy filter and K3 detector, a 200 kV Glacios with a Gatan K3, a 120 kV Tecnai G2 Spirit and a 100 kV Morgagni for screening, an Aquilos 2 cryo-FIB-SEM, a chameleon, three Vitrobots and a Leica GP2, backed by a shared CPU/GPU cluster with 1.8 PB of storage. Fred Hutch scientists access the Krios through a Beckman Foundation funded consortium.

Equipment Inventory(8 instruments)

Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.

Aquilos 2

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Cryo-FIB Milling

FIB-SEM
Configuration: Cryo-FIB-SEM for lamella milling, lift-out and correlative fluorescence

Leica EM GP2

Leica Microsystems · Vitrification

Sample Prep
Configuration: Plunge freezer; Pelco glow dischargers and glow cube also listed

chameleon

SPT Labtech

Sample Prep
Configuration: Blot-free vitrification

Vitrobot

×3

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Sample Prep
Configuration: Three automated plunge freezers plus a manual plunger; generation not stated

Glacios

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening

TEM
Voltage: 200 kV
Configuration: 200 kV; Gatan K3 direct detector

Titan Krios G3

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Tomography

TEM
Configuration: 300 kV; Gatan K3 direct detector; Gatan BioQuantum GIF energy filter; Beckman Foundation funded ($2.5M)

Tecnai T12

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TEM
Configuration: 120 kV screening TEM; Gatan Ultrascan 4000 4k x 4k CCD

Morgagni 268

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Screening / Negative Stain

TEM
Configuration: 100 kV screening TEM; Gatan Orius camera listed on the same page